Exam 5: Digital Security Ethics and Privacy

Phishing is an unsolicited email message or newsgroup posting sent to many recipients or newsgroups at once.

Which of the following statements is not true about backing up?

COPPA protects minors from inappropriate content when accessing the Internet in schools and libraries.

Which of the following does your daughter's daycare use to verify the identity of parents who pick up their children?

Social engineering, as it pertains to computers, is _____________.

Digital signatures often are used to ensure that an imposter is not participating in an Internet transaction.

Which of the following does your college use to verify your identity?

Which of the following terms is used to describe a program that copies itself repeatedly, using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network?

Which term is used to describe software used by cybercriminals?

A perpetrator is using a botnet. Which of the following is the least likely use of his botnet?

Which of the following does a new federal laboratory use in its high security areas?

The term CAPTCHA is _____________.

A(n) ____________________ is a web app that evaluates your computer or mobile device to check for Internet and email vulnerabilities.

What is an EULA intended to do?

Which of the following does your financial institution use to reduce fraud?

The term back door, as it refers to computer crime, is _____________.

Which of the following laws provides the same protection that covers mail and telephone communications to electronic communications such as voice mail?

Information collected and stored about individuals should be limited to what is necessary to carry out the function of the business or government agency collecting the data.

Which of the following involves the use of computers to observe, record, and review an employee's use of a computer, including communications such as email messages, keyboarding activity, and websites visited?

A(n) ____________________ is a wireless network name, which you should change from the default to something that uniquely identifies your network, like the kind in the accompanying figure, especially if you live in close proximity to other wireless networks.